How to Make Biofuel from Newspapers and Magazines Used

How to Make Biofuel from Newspapers and Magazines Used


SOME scientists at Tulane University in New Orleans had perfected strains Clostiridium named TU-103. Microbe is the first of its kind capable of performing the synthesis of butanol from cellulose.
Microbes TU-103 can process various kinds of plants and plant products and turn it into butanol. In other words, these microbes have the ability that one of them able to turn a pile of old newspapers into fuel.

TU-103 was discovered by David Mullin, a professor in the department of molecular cell biology and Tulane University with a postdoctoral Harshad Velankan Hailee Rask and students who worked for over two years.

The team tested the microbes in the middle of bagasse, the fibrous waste material generated during harvesting.

"Cellulose exist everywhere: paper, grass, leaves, corncobs, corn stalks and agricultural waste. These items are available in a large scale because of the stem and ear of corn is generally discarded as waste, "said Mullin.

"The results of the present invention can produce bio-butanol at a cheaper cost that can save fuel costs per gallon. As a fuel, bio-butanol made from cellulose which dramatically lowers carbon dioxide emissions than gasoline and has a positive impact on waste landfills.

Compared to ethanol, butanol is a better product. It utilizes waste material from existing products. Not made from crops grown specifically to make bakar.Butanol material has an energy content that is almost equivalent to gasoline, but with much lower emissions.

Professor practitioners in the department of earth sciences and environmental Tulane University, Jeffrey Sigler said, "Biofuels such as butanol, is generally better for air quality than petrol. This material has a much cleaner burning. "

"If agricultural waste can be recovered into raw materials for biofuels, it seems this could be a very important step forward in reducing CO2 emissions from various types of fuels, while minimizing the impact of land use," he added.

Amazingly, butanol does not require special modification for use in combustion engines that exist today in order to function as a fuel. It is therefore natural that Mullin had great hopes on the TU-103 and butanol as a fuel of the future.